This one time, at band camp, Pierre HABOUZIT said:
> I also have a hard time understanding why having 1000+ virtualhosts in
> apache would create such problems (except if you listen of 1000+
> different ports btw, but I don't think it would be a very clever setup
> anyway :])
Because you have an open fd per virtual host for logfiles. Whether
apache has all the fd's open itself, or it pushes the logs to a named
pipe that does the splitting for apache, something still has all those
fd's open and you can run into this fairly quickly.
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